Half our village died of starvation, mostly the elderly | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Traveling throughout Ukraine and recording the 1932-1933 Holodomor genocide witnesses, the Holodomor Museum’s employees listened to the hundreds…
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The KGB massacred thousands of Poles in 1940 Kharkiv, declassified files reveal
One summer day in 1969, three schoolchildren of about 12-14 years of age, were strolling in the woods…
My neighbor buried her three children | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Vasylyna Antonivna Yarovenko was born on 5 April 1923. “On Thursday,” she adds laughing. Her daughter explains, “It…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 3)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…
Every day two or three people starved to death in our village | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
, , the Holodomor of 1932–1933—all these Soviet anti-farmer terror policies hit hard Anna Slobodian and her family.…
My village once saw twelve people die of hunger in one day | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Contents Authorities classified Hryhoriy’s family as poor, yet seized their food stocksCommunist activists carried out confiscationsThe family survived…
Ukrainian Insurgent Army: the glory, the mistakes, and the sins
The 14th of October is a special day for Ukrainians. This day, which traditionally was celebrated as the Orthodox holiday of the Intercession of the Theotokos, in 2015 became the Day of the Defender of Ukraine. Traditionally, it has been the holiday of Ukrainian Cossack warriors (1491-1775) and, now, a day of soldiers fighting the Russian aggression since 2014. Also, on 14th October 1942, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was founded, even though its first units operated since 1941.
Archaeologists unearth unique amphora-shaped pendants in Poltava Oblast
The head of the expedition, senior researcher at the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences…
Mass grave of UPA soldiers unearthed in Lviv Oblast
On Wednesday, October 6, Sviatoslav Sheremeta, head of the Lviv Regional Council municipal enterprise Dolya Memorial Search Centre…
The last hiding place place of Jews escaping Holocaust in Lviv unearthed
Contents Historical backgroundExploring the sewer conduits of LvivSearching for evidence of human presence The escape manhole Another country,…
My family survived Holodomor by eating waste left from sugar production | Voices of witnesses
Mariia Andriivna Tilna was born on 15 August 1922 in the urban settlement of Kostiantynivka, Bohodukhiv Raion, Kharkiv…
My neighbors escaped starvation by eating grain stored by field mice | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
In 2006 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law that recognized the status of the Holodomor in…
How my father saved his co-villagers from starvation during the Holodomor | Voices of witnesses
When she was just 5 years old, Pelaheia Tovkach became a witness of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine…
French-Russian exhibition in Moscow displays Anna of Kyiv’s Gospel as a Russian historical artifact
Grand exhibition and covert propaganda The exhibition, entitled France and Russia: ten centuries together, opened on September 17…
Surviving in the “collective farm paradise”: voices of living Holodomor witnesses
Dmytro Vyniarskyi was born in Chumaky village, in Sicheslav region (currently Dnipropetrovsk Oblast), founded in the early 18th…
Is Volodymyr the Great a prince of Kyivan Rus or Ukraine-Rus?
The auction house Roma Numismatics Limited has listed a silver coin of Grand Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv with…
Secret service documents from Ukraine, Georgia & former Czechoslovakia reveal persecution of East European intellectuals
The Ukrainian documents reveal interesting facts about writer and humourist Ostap Vyshnia, filmmaker Oleksandr Dovzhenko, monumentalist artist Mykhailo…
Nine powerful films about Ukraine to add to your watch list
Contents 1. Chernobyl (2019)2. Mr. Jones (2019)3. Ukraїner (2019)4. Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die (2017)5. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors…
Ukraine at 30: reflecting on Ukraine’s path toward Western integration
Independence Day of Ukraine: facts & brief history After an unsuccessful coup attempt by hardline Communist Party leaders…
How the USSR interfered in the 1964 US presidential election: KGB memo
Potential Russian interference in the US presidential election has been a top media topic several times in recent…
